Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...unscrew Hoffa's hammerlock on most of the U.S. transportation industry. Just about the last hope of halting Hoffa is the three-man Teamster Board of Monitors, set up three years ago by a Federal court to keep the 1,650,000-member union at least reasonably clean. Last week Jimmy Hoffa was just one shot away from sinking the monitors...
Ward, meanwhile, refused to concede. O'Connor capitulated shortly before midnight, but still Ward held firm. Volpe's victory speech, with a pledge to clean up and reorganize Massachusetts government, did nothing but make him more adamant...
Nixon won Harry Truman's home precinct, but little else, Democratic winners in clean sweeps were Kennedy, Governor-elect John Dalton, re-elected Senator Edward Long, and House Parliamentarian Clarence Cannon...
Despite all the grandstand opinion on how the economy is doing, the heart of the story is told in the box score: company earnings. Last week, as a flood of third-quarter earnings came out, there were some expected strikeouts. But there were also a surprising number of clean base hits where none were expected...
...book's best piece is about railroading - how to set a freight car's brake and then, perilously, slip blocks of wood under the wheels; the arrogant, slow-motion skill of well-paid oldtimers in clean overalls; the trainman's contempt for the placid, nonrolling civilian world. The author's stream-of-consciousness gibberish is fairly effective as he tells of being summoned at 4:30 a.m. to catch an early run ("I wake up ... in the mouth of the night and there everything knows that I have no mother, and no sister, and no father...